Rate My Professor Lia Kent

Lia Kent is an Associate Professor and Australian Research Council Future Fellow, as well as a Senior Fellow, in the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) in the College of Asia and the Pacific at The Australian National University. She holds a PhD in Socio-legal Studies from the University of Melbourne, awarded in 2011, with a thesis entitled "Justice is Yet to Come: Rethinking the Dynamics of Transitional Justice in East Timor." Kent's research centers on interdisciplinary peace and conflict studies, exploring how communities make sense of legacies of state violence and protracted conflict. She examines local practices of social repair and their intersections with state-building and peacebuilding priorities pursued by states and international actors. Her work addresses key themes including peacebuilding, state formation, transitional justice, reconciliation, gender justice, memory politics, necro-politics, and missing persons. This research draws on long-term ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Timor-Leste since 2004, as well as in Aceh, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka.